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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 20, 2009
Filed:
Dec. 27, 2006
Applicant:
Marko Laakkonen, Vantaa, FI;
Inventor:
Marko Laakkonen, Vantaa, FI;
Assignee:
General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY (US);
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 5/1455 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
The invention relates to a patient measurement device, especially to a pulse oximeter, provided with multiple sensors. In order to reduce the hardware required by a measurement performed through the multiple sensors, a repeating drive pulse sequence is generated, which contains drive pulses for the emitter elements of the plurality of sensors. Furthermore, each drive pulse of the sequence is supplied to a corresponding emitter element and sensor-specific detectors connected in parallel are employed to produce an electric reception signal received at the measurement device.